Review Summary

“The Last Song”: if only it were. But it is likely that we can look forward to more movies starring Miley Cyrus, the teenage chanteuse attempting some serious acting in this beachy melodrama. And we will also have many more films based on the work of Nicholas Sparks. We have already had two this year — “Dear John” and this one — and a comparison is instructive, if also exhausting.
— A. O. Scott